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John Langan
@johnlangan.bsky.social
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Writer. All monsters, all the time. Filthy liberal.
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 7h
2 new horror collections out today from @wordhorde.bsky.social: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND: THE HOLLOW EARTH STORY CYCLE by @orringrey.com and LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by @johnlangan.bsky.social

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Cover for Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan, featuring a woman looking up at a huge winking skull cover art for Notes from Underground by Orrin Grey, featuring a cross-section of different types of soil, with grass on top and a spider, skull, and centipede
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intelligentwat 🇹🇹 @zinrock.bsky.social · 2d
ghoulish behavior
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3d
Oh, hello
"2025 Winners Announcement" with Ignyte Awards logo overlayed on artwork by Nilah Magruder featuring a young Black knight in profile, kneeling with gloved hands on the hilt of a sword surrounded by orange flames. An eclipsing sun is in the background, giving the character a purple halo.
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John Langan @johnlangan.bsky.social · 3d
Story prompt!
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said. Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said. A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said. "The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there." Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
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eldritchexarch.bsky.social @eldritchexarch.bsky.social · 4d
Its once again time for Friends of @lairdbarron.bsky.social! This time: @johnlangan.bsky.social's masterpiece "Technicolor!"

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Friends of the Barron Read-Along 5: "Technicolor"
Note: I was really hoping to record this one, do a neat audio-visual representation with powerpoint, but alas, I have a face and voice meant for writing rather than radio and film.
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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 4d
My pal @cheriepriest.com ‘s second Eden Moore novel, the sequel to Four and Twenty Black Birds, is on sale. Get it now!

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Wings to the Kingdom (Eden Moore Book 2)
Amazon.com: Wings to the Kingdom (Eden Moore Book 2) eBook : Priest, Cherie: Kindle Store
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 4d
This is today! Come say hi if you’re near Algonquin. I love this Barnes & Noble. It’s my local one. 💜
Event Details IN STORE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025 11:00 AM CT Book Signing with author Lauren Bolger ABOUT THIS EVENT Thiller/Horror author Lauren Bolger will be in store (from 11-1) signing copies of her newest book, The Barre Incidents.
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 4d
I pre-ordered this and so can you!
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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 5d
NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)
PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press
"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin
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John Langan @johnlangan.bsky.social · 4d
Clive the Nightmare Carnival Barker.
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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 4d
Hey spooky book fans, my man @johnhornor.bsky.social will be at The Lobby on Delmar today at 4pm with books made available from The Novel Neighbor

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John Hornor Jacobs | The Night That Finds Us All | The Novel Neighbor
Discover your next favorite book at The Novel Neighbor, an independent bookstore and community space in St. Louis, MO. Where books, art and people meet.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 5d
If you want to understand why the ICE facility in Portland is such a hotbed of protest, this story is all the context you need...
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Sean Woods @seanwoods.bsky.social · 5d
"They disappeared her." This story from @timdickinson.bsky.social is so upsetting. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway
Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.
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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 5d
I really love this adaptation of the classic Bradbury tale for the Ray Bradbury Theater (1986). Terrifying. This one stars Jeff Goldblum.
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"The Town Where No One Got Off" (1986) - Ray Bradbury Theater,
YouTube video by LionHeart FilmWorks
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 5d
“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the indictment of NY AG Tish James on Trump-ordered charges.
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Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · 5d
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THE FISHERMAN | Nepenthe Press
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Talking Scared Podcast @talkscaredpod.bsky.social · 6d
A self-indulgent moment on Talking Scared. @natcassidy.bsky.social and @rachelharrison.bsky.social come onboard to grill ME about my debut GOOD BOY.

We talk about the inspirations, the struggles, the characters, and what I’ve learned in 5 years of talking to authors.

All podcast platforms
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d
Republicans won’t show up to vote on paying our troops during the shutdown because avoiding a vote on the Epstein files to protect Trump and his friends is more important.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
"The Supreme Court has made clear that it will allow Trump to violate every constitutional prohibition, removing any obstacle in his way, and crediting the most farcical legal argument."
Trump is the insurrection
And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d
my God! poor Tashtego
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 6d
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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John Langan @johnlangan.bsky.social · 5d
Ahem. SIR: this needs to be finished. Promptly.
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Matthew Jaffe @mrj81.bsky.social · 5d
Did I love “Andy Kaufman Creeping Through The Trees”? No, it unsettled me like nothing else I had ever read, so much so that I had to paint a picture of Andy as Tony Clifton to exorcise it from my system. Never finished it, but Julie Vellum was alongside with him
in the basement covered in fungus
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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 5d
Latest Goodreads review of @claymcleod.bsky.social's Stoker-nominated novella KILL YOUR DARLING says, "The writing is taut, vivid, and at times cruelly funny in the way real tragedy can be. This book won’t make you feel better, but it will make you feel."

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 5d
Titles by @brackenmacleod.bsky.social @jfdt.bsky.social @tomsnig.bsky.social and @jsuretteacheson.bsky.social @timlebbon.bsky.social @lairdbarron.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @inkwellmonster.bsky.social @michaelwehunt.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social & more.
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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 5d
Did you know? You can purchase our eBooks directly from us! We've updated our purchase page with our latest releases. Cut out Bezos, etc. and buy direct.

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eBooks — Bad Hand Books
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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 5d
The latest Goodreads review of NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT by @lairdbarron.bsky.social says, "The master of modern weird fiction is still at the top of his game."

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 5d
Happy, Crazy, American Animals and a Man and Lady at My Place — John Wilde, 1961
oil on wood
12 x 17 7/8 in. (30.4 x 45.3 cm.)
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Description by the Smithsonian: "John Wilde paints in painstaking detail, filling his small images with real and imagined creatures. He incorporates nude female figures to symbolize nature, and in this work the running woman echoes the galloping pronghorn antelope beside her. Wilde's careful technique makes all the animals appear frozen in time, but it is easy to imagine them coming back to life at any moment, screeching and thumping their way through the house. The artist himself stands in the very back of the scene, watching the madness unfold with a calm expression as if he is controlling every movement. "
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